Purpose

Material Witness will focus on extreme textile process. Images will be posted here showing the history of my work, new work, developing projects and inspiration.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

No Words

Source of this photo is unknown but is perfect for what I feel. Thank you to who-ever took it.

I checked through many of the posts I usually read and have discovered that many people are wordless in the last two days.

I spent two days wordless.

There isn't a single thing to say about how very sad I feel about what has happened in Japan.Part of me is now broken.

A few people from Japan check into this little blog. Personal inspiration comes from artists like Yayoi Kusuma, Issey Miyake and many others. Please be safe. Exchange students have stayed in my home and one beautiful boy named Kimataka is from an island that appears to have been wiped out. Please be safe. Setsuko, Mariko, Zen, Mas, Yuriko...please be safe!

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I am a textile artist living and working on Mayne Island on the West Coast of Canada.

I like using extreme methods while transforming cloth. That means ripping, tearing, burning, and rotting and using whatever method is needed to create eroded and complex surfaces.This includes using modern, traditional and ancient techniques to produce contemporary fabric art.

I also make sculpture, mixed media work, am a precision dyer and have worked for stage, film and television. Getting to teach workshops, sharing process and inspiration tickles my bones. None of us would know how to sew on a button without sharing skills.